MCP Gateway Architecture Patterns for Enterprise Scale
Stateless MCP gateways eliminate sticky sessions but require deliberate patterns for scale.
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9 stories in MCP Architecture.
Stateless MCP gateways eliminate sticky sessions but require deliberate patterns for scale.
Kubernetes handles the operational demands enterprise MCP fleets actually have.
Understanding which primitive controls invocation saves your MCP server from cross-client failure.
Choosing stateful or stateless shapes how your MCP server scales.
Date-based versioning tracks breaking changes only, while features shift independently underneath.
Picking the wrong MCP transport layer traps you in a six-month migration nobody budgeted for.
Designing which agents talk to whom determines your governance model and blast radius.
Three fields in your tool schema determine whether AI agents can run wild or stay locked down.
Stateful connections and transport fragmentation make MCP discovery harder than REST.